Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Future
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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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movies
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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Sports
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I grew up being into sports and I wasnt trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. Im the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals its always, OK, one more take for Zac. – Zac Efron

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Sports

Were not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears. – Calvin Klein

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Sports

Approach the game with no preset agendas and youll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. – Phil Jackson

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Sports

You cant put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps

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Sports

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – Soren Kierkegaard

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teacher

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. – George Allen

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Freedom

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. – John H. Johnson

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Change

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. – Johannes Kepler

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Astrology